Paige Bueckers gets double-double in return to Minnesota, but losses pile up for Dallas Wings

Menabolis – Less than a minute stayed around the clock, as Baege Bokerz kept the ball in her hands in a very familiar square. In the third Wnba It was the emerging professional professional game, which was shot and offered in a place where she played as a secondary and athlete. Her star was born less than 10 miles from the target center in St. Louis Park and Hopkins Secondary School. It knows how the ball bounces on this floor and it is fully aware of how to echo the chants and the reservations from the walls here.

While the wings of Dallas were five points late, the axis seeds pulled the ball along with its left side and began to get his saliva. It was shattered around a screen, and suddenly three defenders of Minnesota Linux had closed their eyes on them. In a narrow game like this, the few would blame the rising to go to glory while playing in front of countless friends and family chose to withdraw for a long shot or pushed to the defense teeth.

But the seeds, the 1st selection of the year in the draft of WNBA for this year from UconnIt is more intelligent than that. It may only be three games in her career, and may only be 23 years old, but the 6 -foot Minnesota citizen sees the game like an experienced veteran. Thus, she had two options. Myisha Hines-Allen was rolling to the edge and seemed to have had a short start in Naphesa Colleier-which allowed for a period of time HINES-Allen to cut off the heat of the bickers-or can be able to place it in the Arike Ogunbowale, which was widely open in the ground of 3 points a few feet away. Instead of challenging Coller, the ruling defensive player for this year, the seeds feed her colleague at BackCourt.

Ogunbowale caught the pass, gathering and shooting in one liquid movement, and the ball It fell without harmful through the network. A suite on the other side of the square, full of flame and friends who wear wings equipment, roar.

Dallas is now only two points behind 39.1 seconds. Victory looked at hand.

“I just own the ball in my hands a little more, and I am trying to create plays for my teammates, myself, and read what the defense offers,” said Bokerz after the match. “Often times, we only do the right play as one team, so whatever the correct play in that possession, this is what we look forward to doing.”

Unfortunately, Coller drowned two free throws to put the game on the ice for the lameness in the expectation of the house, and won 85-81. But Dimer’s extravagance in the last minute of the competition was important because she got the first double double as a professional, giving her 10 passes and 12 points in her game returning to the homeland.

“It is crazy to say that I played on this floor at all three levels … I never left Minnesota to go.” “But frankly, if I am real, I am not thinking about it at all when I am there, I am only at the present time.”

It is one of the first major landmarks that the seeds have reached in their promising career, and you are likely to remember for a while.

“You are trying to put everything in his right perspective. To see all young girls and people in the stands and realize that this was you, like 10 or 15 years old,” said Bouckerz. “Therefore, you never consider it as a foregone, and the extent of our ability to be able to play in this league, play at this level and be in this organization. Just very grateful, and you try to reflect that every time you play with passion, joy and heart you play with him. So, you take it with you wherever you go.”

Those who know better although they all agree on at least one thing: this is not a player who is interested in individual statistics, decorations or prizes. She wants to win, wants to win a lot, and wants to win at the highest level. This is why there are a few people at all more happier than it was when it was cutting a network in Tampa, Florida, about a month ago after the leadership of Uconn into a national championship. This is why Geno Auriemma has overcome her on the ground for the last time in her final match as the most hoarse, tears flowed on the corners of her eyes because she has long embraced Uconn coach in an emotional hug.

It was clear during the pressgame press that the loss was difficult for the seeds. While it was uniform for Uconn, the Huskies team did not lose successive games, much less than three in a row. Heck, Uconn lost only three games throughout the season in the previous campaign.

Among the correspondents asking questions, Ogunbowale pointed to the degree of the square in front of it, referring to different numbers. The seeds looked at it, ignored and gave unresolved responses to her teammate. The only piece of important data, the end result, was not in favor of the wings.

“Back to the home is really great, and it is a great experience,” said Bokcrak. “But what we are trying to build and what we are trying to do in the game is more important.”

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People have asked the services over the past few weeks about the most difficult modification that was from the college to the PRO game. It is a common question that young people get and respond to the services. But the real answer may have nothing to do with what the pig is and what they could not do in court. She is still smart, smart defender, strong shooter, and a person who plays with fiery competitiveness.

The difference between playing in Storrs, Connecticut, Dallas, Texas, is to deal with a loss often. This does not seem to change any time soon.

Dallas, so far, is similar to a disassembled team. In addition to formulating extravagance, they brought a lot of new faces to put it around the fixed star of the privilege over the past few seasons, Ogunbowale. The wings do not play a traditional position, instead, they choose a lineage often with three attackers and guards. They have a main trainer in the first year and a general manager in the first year. It is an early and small sample size, but the wings are arranged at the bottom of the league in most statistical groups.

Also, it is not yet clear whether Ogunbowale and Puccers could be an applicable and successful conjunction. Through three games, the first Notradam Guard launches shooting on the profession from the ground (30.4) and from 3 domain points (25.1).

That’s all he says, things may get worse for Dallas before they improve. It will be worth monitoring whether extravagance can continue to play well even with the losses.

“One day. This is the slogan that I will go to,” said the seeds. “Only, every day, I try to grow and improve. As a team and as a system, we have the same mindset.”

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On Wednesday night, she returned to her original condition, the seeds have achieved the Sanders debt prophecy about how the good appearance leads to playing well. She appeared to the target center and walked across the intestine in the square in a group established by the iconic Harlem DANDN. The convenience, complete with a dedicated ZIP jacket, is a partnership product with the Sherwin-Williams to highlight its most lonely color in 2025: Lilac SW 0074 radioactive. The manufacturer of paint is called “a shade that inspires self -expression and color confidence.”

It is a suitable and suitable description that the olives who lead the campaign highlight the color. Because this season for her may not be about victories and losses. It may be only about proving it to everyone that it is heading to stardom in WNBA, and that it is someone who can build a list that takes over a championship, and it can be the best player on the ground.

“I think Big will be really good,” Koller said of his Uconn Alum colleague. “She is a top scorer from three levels, she is a great passer -by. As you know, the emerging years are very difficult, so I just want to tell her that there will be up and down. But from what I saw, it remains aggressive.”

This season may be related to the fishermen who maintain its confidence, regardless of the extent to which the wings are low in the arrangement, and it may be about expressing the type of player it is completely.